On the congested streets of Cairo, Egypt’s capital city, rider Dina Wassef is mounting a motorcycle, presenting a rare sight. With a population of 104 million, Egypt is a conservative country where it ...

This past June 30-year-old Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist Sarah Hegazi committed suicide in Canada. Her last Instagram photo showed her laying under a blue sky with the words "The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: In Egypt, women who've fallen into debt say the cost of it goes far beyond the financial. They face jail time, then social ...

The Pharaohs enter a closed training camp starting today, February 27. Women's Africa Cup of Nations 2026: Egypt ramps up preparations! The Egypt women's national team embarks today, February 27, on a ...

Before I moved to Egypt in 2011, I had a picture of the country in my mind. It was full of accomplished women, I imagined, and was progressive and cosmopolitan in ways that many Western observers didn ...

In Egypt women rappers like Dareen are battling to make their mark in a booming industry long-dominaed by men — Ahmed HASAN Egyptian rapper Dareen is a whirlwind of sharp verses and curly hair on ...

When the British government of David Lloyd George denied any chance to the party of politician and fervent separatist Saad Zaghloul, the Wafd, to discuss an independent Egyptian republic, citizens all ...

Ancient Egypt treated royal women very differently from most other ancient societies. Because kingship was tied to divine blood passed through the royal female line, women of royal birth could ...

CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - She advertises her surgeries discreetly as a "health and beauty" service, but the gynaecologist offering hymen reconstruction operations to women in rural Egypt ...

21 January, 2020; Cairo, Egypt – The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) today announced a partnership with Care Egypt Foundation (CEF) and Microsoft to launch a ‘Women ...